{"id":63149,"date":"2025-03-22T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63149"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:32:37","slug":"undeclared-customs-intercept-n289-5-billion-at-abuja-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/22\/undeclared-customs-intercept-n289-5-billion-at-abuja-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Airport Customs Intercept N289.5b Tucked in Yoghurt Carton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service have seized an undeclared sum of one hundred and ninety three thousand dollars, approximately two hundred and eighty nine point five billion naira, concealed in a carton of yoghurt at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Customs spokesperson Abdullahi Maiwada confirmed the interception on Friday, stating that the suspect arrived aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight No. 951 from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on intelligence, officers conducted a thorough inspection of the passenger\u2019s luggage and uncovered the hidden cash.<\/p>\n<p>Maiwada explained that the failure to declare the funds violates the Anti Money Laundering Prevention and Prohibition Act 2022 and the Nigeria Customs Service Act 2023, which require travellers carrying more than ten thousand dollars or its equivalent to declare it upon arrival or departure.<\/p>\n<p>The seized money has been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for further investigation and possible prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Maiwada reaffirmed the Customs Service\u2019s commitment to enforcing financial regulations and curbing illicit financial flows, urging travellers to comply with declaration requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service have seized an undeclared sum of one hundred and ninety three thousand dollars, approximately two hundred and eighty nine point five billion naira, concealed in a carton of yoghurt at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. Customs spokesperson Abdullahi Maiwada confirmed the interception on Friday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63153,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63149\/revisions\/63153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}